Hanger for spring-clamps.



Patented June 17, 1913.

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L.S.ALLEN. HANGER FOR SPRING GLAMPS APPLICATION FILED JAN.6, 1912.A

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LQUXSE S. ALLEN, CIRCLEVILLE, GHIO.

HANGER FOR SPRING-CLAMPS.

Application filed January 6, 19M.

made, and which is adapted to be applied to spring clamps already in use, or else to be manufactured in connection 'with the clamps.

A further object is to provide a hanger to be used in connection with the clamps above described, constructed of a single pieceot' wire, sosbent that it may be readily applied to clamps and firmly engage the same through its own resilience, no implement being necessary in order to apply the hanger to the clamp and no modification being necessary in the clamp itself.

A further object is to so form the hanger above referred to as to provide means for locking the hanger upon the clamp and thus preventing its accidental detachment while permit-ting it to be readily detached intentionally.

My invention is illustrated in` the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective Vview of my, hanger applied to a clamp. F ig. 2 a face view f the hanger showing the manner of applying the same to the clamp, the clamp being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the hanger show'- 4ing the same in its normal position before being applied to the clamp. Fig. Ll is a tace view of the hanger showing the position teiten by the parts when the hanger 1s applied to the clamp, the clamp being shown in dotted lines. Fig. is a perspective view oi the hanger and clamp but showing the hanger supporting the clamp in a substantially horizont-al position.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accoiiipanying` drawing' by the same reference characters.

In the drawings l have illustrated a clamp composed ot two clamping jaws 2, these jaws being recessed about midway their Specification of Letters Patent.

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length as at 3 so as to receive the coil 4t of the spring 5, the ends thereof extending along the sides oi' the clamping jaws and being bent outward and laterally to engage the outer sides ot' the clamping jaws near the ends thereof. lt is to be noted that the pivot of the clamp is formed of the coil 3 and that this coil is open at the ends. This form of clamp is old and by itself forms no part of my invention.

In order to provide means for hanging the clamp above described, and in order to provide a device which is readily attachable to or detachable from such a clamp, l provide a hanger ot' the form shown -in Fig. This hanger is composed of a single piece of wire 6 which may be of any desired size and length and which has the proper resiliency. The length of wire is bent intermediate its 4ends to form an open loop 7 having its tremities outwardly bentas at 8. llhe resilience of the wire is such to hold the extremities ot the legs of the loop apart from each other, and the angular bends 8 extending in opposite directions.

l/Vhen it is desired to apply the hanger to the clasp, the loop 7 is compressed between the thumb and finger and the legs of the loop caused to cross each other, as shown in Fig. 2. The loop 7 is compressed'to such au extent that the terminal ends 8 are opened or vspread apart from each other suliiciently to permit the insertion of the clamp between these terminal ends. When the terminal ends 8 are opposite the coil ot the clamp, the pressure on the loop is relieved and th.J resilience of the loop forces the terminal ends 8 into the coil 3. When in position within the coil 3, it will be seen that the ter minal ends overlap each other to a considerable extent, thus providing a double bearing or support for the clamp along practically the whole length of the coil 3.

lt will be'seen that when once in position, the hanger can not readily be detached from the clamp and that the clamp provides means whereby the hanger maybe supported and used as a means for displaying articles, or

the jaws 2 so that the hanger forms no obstruction to the opening of the clamp and need not be removed from the clamp in order to open the aws. Further it will be seen that the hanger being disposed as it is immediately above the center of the clamp, the weight placed upon the hanger will come directly downward and not to one side.

In order to provide means for holding the hanger with its terminal endsA opened so that it may be readily applied to the clamp, I may provide one of the legs of the loop 7 with ya crimp or loop 9 of such depth that whenthe loop 7 is compressed to such point that the terminal ends 8 will open up sutliciently to permit the clamp to be inserted be` tween the ends, one of the legs of the loop 7 will engage in the loop 9. This engagement of one of the legs with the loop 9 will hold the legs in a spaced condition ready for engagement with the clamp.

It has beenattem )ted in a number of cases to provide means or supporting the form of clamp illustrated in Fig. l. No means have heretofore been provided, however, for supporting a single one of these clamps which may be readily attached to or detached from the clamp and which will engage the clamp at its middle so that when hung up, the clamp will depend straight from the hanger.

While under ordinary circumstances,tlie

`hanger will be applied to the clamp in the manner shown in Fig. 1, it may sometimes occur that it is desirable to support the clamp at an angle to the vertical, and it will be seen from Fig'. 5 that this may be readily loue by detaching the hanger from the clamp and replacing it in engagement therewith, with the hanger disposed on one side oit/the clamp in place of between the jaws. Under these circumstances, the clamp may be used for supporting cards or like articles at an angle to the vertical and be used in circumstances where a vertically hung clamp would be of little or no value.

A clamp and hanger constructed as above described is particularly useful in dressing store windows but may be used for a large variety of purposes including -the hanging of garments.

My invention is very simple, may bev cheaply made in large quantities, is readily applied or detached and is extremely convenient as it does not interfere with the ordinary use of the clamp.

What I claim is:

A hanger for clamping members comprising a strand of resilient material bent upon itself, the ends of said strand being disposed at rightangles to the body portion, the strand being crossed to resiliently extend its offset ends within the article to be supported, there being a loop pressed out from the strand with which the oppositely disposed portion of the strand contacts to maintain the oiset terminals in spaced relation in order that the hanger may be applied to the device to be supported.

In testimony whereof, I aiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LOUISE S. ALLEN. [Ls] Witnesses S. I. BROWN., MEEKER TERWILLIGER. 

